April 2006 - Posts
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Apple may be planning to implement the Windows API (Application Programming Interfaces) directly in Mac 10.5, which would allow Mac users to run Windows XP applications natively in Mac OS X without rebooting and without the need for virtualization software. Robert Cringely, in his latest column, als... Read More...
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In case you read the Register article, talked about here, you might be curious as to what VMware introduced at the Linux Symposium last July. If your curiousity was peaked, like mine, you might find this interesting as well.
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Ben Armstrong and John Howard swoop in with another Microsoft Virtual Server code tip!
Do you want to learn how to programmatically change the boot order of a virtual machine's BIOS? Ben explains this is accomplished by using GetConfigurationValue and SetConfigurationValue, two powerful and usef... Read More...
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A battle as to how Linux will handle future virtualization software from the likes of VMware and Xen has moved from a war of words to a war of indecision. The major parties involved - including Linux kernel maintainers - agree that a compromise over the virtualization interface must be reached, but ... Read More...
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AMD apparently wants to set up a research group in Dresden not only to optimize Linux for its own processors, but also to integrate the requirements of the open operating system in the development process for future processor generations. At least, that's what three ads for the Fab 36 would seem to ... Read More...
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EMC Corporation, the world leader in information management and storage, today reported record first-quarter revenues on increased demand for its new family of high-end networked EMC Symmetrix® storage systems, EMC Documentum® content management software, EMC Smarts® resource management software and... Read More...
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Microsoft Management Summit is the premier annual event for Windows System Administrators, offering attendees a wide range of information on how to deploy, secure, and manage Windows desktops, servers, devices, and services. The conference will take place, April 24-28, 2006, at the San Diego Conven... Read More...
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Red Hat released a really "interesting" flash demo which details what they believe virtualization to be, talks about Xen, Red Hat, and Fedora, and offers this in a really bizarre flash demo marketing campaign that should come with a label warning you if you have a heart condition, are prone to seizu... Read More...
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H&R Block estimates it has saved about $1 million on hardware purchases since rolling out virtualization in June 2005
As the Monday U.S. deadline for filing taxes quickly approaches, tax preparation firm H&R Block says it has found a way to cut IT costs.
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Over the past 5 years, virtualization software running on Intel processor-based servers has transformed the economics of server consolidation. IT organizations no longer have to balance the benefits of consolidation against the cost and risk of high-end RISC and UNIX implementations. Instead, they c... Read More...
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Score another win for Parallels as they announce the beta release of Parallels VM Compactor 1.0, a powerful, easy to use virtual hard disk management tool that optimizes performance of any Parallels, VMware or Microsoft virtual machine running Windows 2000, 2003, or XP by compacting its hard drive b... Read More...
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As the Server Blade Summit reaches its 5th anniversary, it is starting to attract serious attention from the virtualization community.
Some of the participating companies this year will be:
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Parallels has released Beta 4 of its Workstation for Mac OS X.
Some of the new features added are:
Support for full screen mode
Dual-monitor support
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On the VMware forums, Kevin Gehrke (a Senior Technical Support Engineer for VMware) posted a "how to" method for importing a VMware Server beta image into VMware ESX Server.
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David Wang recently posted a great HOW TO for having a nightly script to run on guest machines and perform the following tasks:
start / restore from saved state if machine is not running (preferably disconnected from network in order to preserve resources)
run on the guest the VHD maintenance ut... Read More...
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Enterprise grid software vendor Platform Computing has amalgamated its existing partner programmes into a single scheme called the Platform Alliance Network.
The programme is intended to help Platform grow in the virtualisation space. The vendor recently launched a virtualisation management produ... Read More...
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Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com), a provider of Xen-based software solutions for creating and managing virtual infrastructure in the data center, today announced that Alex Vasilevsky, its founder and Chief Technology Officer, will make a presentation on The New Virtualized Data Center at ... Read More...
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TenAsys is developing a real-time virtual-machine manager based on the built-in virtualization technology extensions of Intel's new multi-core processors. TenAsys says its RT-Hypervisor, available later this year, will isolate multiple operating environments on an Intel processor, ensuring real-time... Read More...
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OpenVZ has just announced the release of their free VE Checkpointing/Migration tool.
It's a huge pile of code that lets you checkpoint your virtual environments — in the same way you do "suspend to disk" or "hibernation" on your laptop. This is cool, but what's the use of it for VE? Here it is: you... Read More...
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Vizioncore, Inc., the leader in backup, restoration, and disaster recovery automation for the VMware ESX Server, announced today the release of its free esxBasics starter pack for ESX Server.
Including free basic versions of both vizioncore's flagship esxRanger and esxCharter, esxBasics provides a... Read More...
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